Roachbourne, I don’t mean to invalidate your concerns, but this sounds like a very minor offense by a teenager. The fact that your friend told you to stop and you did suggests to me that you were actually reasonably respectful at the time. Could you possibly view it as that you made a misstep, your friend corrected you, you heard her telling you she didn’t want you to do that and so you stopped, and so it wasn’t much more than a learning experience of the sort that lots of teenagers have to go through before they figure out how to approach people they might be interested in?

We all make mistakes as we grow up- I would imagine most therapists would understand that.